Friday, April 2, 2010

Received First Adsense Check, Expecting another soon

It has been a while since I last gave an update. I am very sorry about this. I have been making progress though. The last time I reported that I finally broke the adsense threshold, which is $100. Since the time I started with adsense, it took some years to achieve this milestone. However, if I start counting from the time that I really started learning how to do this properly, it would be more like 5 months.

I am pleased to report that I did get my first adsense check, which was for a little over $100. And it is with great pleasure that I can say I have surpassed the threshold again, and am now expecting another pay cheque from google, for a little over $130, all this within two months since I first reached the minimum cash-out of $100. So I am gaining some ground, though I'm still not at the point where I am making enough to expect a cashout each month.

I did report previously that I planned to use some of the money I've earned from adsense to outsource some of the work, so that I can progress faster. Well I have so far outsourced a few articles to help with my backlinking. I hope to outsource more to help boost my rankings in the search engines.

It was my estimation that I would need to write about 240 money articles to reach my target of 100 per day. I was therefore supposed to find 240 keywords that have a certain potential. Unfortunately I cannot say that I have completed this work. I did do some research, and I found a few other keywords. So I still have a lot to do in this aspect of the business.

My daily income has been varying. I have had days where I did over $6 and $5. But this has not been a consistent result. I still have days where I make less than $1. I am positive though that with persistence, and sticking to the plan of writing the 240 articles, that my daily earnings will increase, and become more consistent.

Ok, that's all for now. I do expect that the time that elapses between now and my next update will be much shorter than the time elapsed between now and my last update.

Monday, February 15, 2010

Adsense Threshold Reached!

As the subject of this entry indicates, I have reached the threshold for withdrawing from my google adsense account. Actually I made it to the $100 mark just a day after making my last entry, so this is somewhat old news. Anyway, this means I should receive my first pay cheque from google either this month or next month. They should be sending it this month, but I'm not sure how long it will take to arrive.

So that's the good news. The bad news is that I failed to stick to my plan. I had intended to find 240 keywords to write about by the end of the first week in February. Alas, that did not materialise. I did find some new keywords, but nowhere near the targeted 240. On the positive side however, I did manage to get some articles posted for a few of these keywords I found. I didn't actually write the articles myself; I got a friend to help out. I still need to do the research and find a lot more keywords to tackle, and I still plan to outsource about 18 articles this month, using the money I'm getting from my first google pay check.

I notice that my search engine rankings for certain articles have been falling. I need to try to boost them up with a couple backlinks so that I can continue to profit from them. So my focus now is to try to get certain articles/sites ranking better, by means of building backlinks, as well as to try to produce content for certain keywords I already found. At the same time, I need to still add to my keyword list. I fully intend to reach my target of $100 per day sometime this year, and hopefully months before the year is over.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Struggling along with Adsense

I should have posted an update long ago. Last time I posted was last year. At the time I mentioned that my progress had slowed, as the site I was making consistent income from, fell in the google ranks. My plan was to create two new sites and try to raise my average daily earnings to approximately $3.

Ok, well I only created one additional site. I did not reach $3 per day, and I still haven't reached the $100 mark to request my first withdrawal. I am very close to it though, and I should definitely be able to request my first google cheque in February.

The new site I created is not yet on the first page of google. I think right now it is going between pages 3 and 4. However, for the few visitors I've received, I've gotten a taste of what things could be like once the site gets on the first page, as each click pays quite well.

My aim for this year, though I hope to achieve this long before the year is up, is to make on average $100 a day. I've done some calculations, and I think that I can reach this goal with 240 keyword focused posts. This is going to be a lot of work. First of all, it requires doing the keyword research. Then I will need to create the posts. Then I need to do what I can to get backlinks to each post/article, until they rank well enough to start earning near their potential.

As this is really a very tedious and time consuming task, I intend to outsource some of this work, using current earnings. So once I request a cash out, I will look into outsourcing some of the content creation. I will be spreading these articles over the few sites I have. If I find any real keyword winners, I may also create new sites to target them.

So my first order of business is to come up with about 240 keywords. Once I do this, I will try to put a timeline on when I hope to achieve the $100 per day. I am going to try to assemble this keyword list by the end of the first week in February. This should be an exciting year. So check back to see my progress.